Lukas Rovensky's Webloghttps://blogs.oracle.com/lr/
Blog for lren-usCopyright 2010Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:49:44 +0000Apache Roller BLOGS401ORA6 (20130904125427)https://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/opensolaris_developer_preview_indiana_inOpenSolaris Developer Preview / Indiana on MacBooklrhttps://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/opensolaris_developer_preview_indiana_in
Wed, 7 Nov 2007 05:32:17 +0000Solaris<p>
I installed the last week the
<a href="http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/resources/getit/">
OpenSolaris Developer Preview / Indiana</a> inside Paralles Desktop 3.0
running on MacBook Pro laptop (see my
<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/lr/entry/solaris_macbook_and_parallels">post concerning
installing SXCE</a> for details about setting up the virtual machine).
</p>
<p>
Booting the LiveCD went very well and the auto-login worked for me. I booted the system
from real CD not just an iso image and I was quite impressed by the speed of the boot
process. Then I started the actual installation and again, everything went smooth.
</p>
<p>
The last thing I had to do was to install the network drivers. This required mounting
the <code>/Library/Parallels/Tools/vmtools.iso</code> (set the <code>vmtools.iso</code>
at the Edit/Virtual Machine.../CD/DVD-ROM Options/Image File and reboot the virtual
machine). The device driver is located at
<code>/media/PRTOOLS/Drivers/Network/RTL8029/SOLARIS</code>. The recommended method
to install the driver is to use the <code>network.sh</code> script. However, this script
builds the driver from source code and since the Indiana preview does not contain C compiler this
method did not work. So, I read the <code>README.txt</code>, <code>network.sh</code>,
unpacked the sources and found that the binaries are also provided. I looked also in the
makefiles to find out details about installing the driver and here are the steps, which
worked for me:
<ul>
<li>
Use <code>prtconf</code> to verify that the RTL8029 card is recognized, look
for <code>pci10ec,8029</code> under <code>pci, instance #0</code>.
</li>
<li>
Log as a root.
</li>
<li>
unzip and untar the <code>ni0.8.11.tar</code>:
<code># gunzip ni0.8.11.tgz; tar xvf ni0.8.11.tar</code>
</li>
<li>
Use <code>addni.sh</code> script (part of the unpacked sources) to add the new driver
to the system.
</li>
<li>
Install the driver binaries to the <code>/kernel/drv</code> directory -- invoke the
following commands from the directory with unpacked sources:
<ul>
<li>
<code># /usr/sbin/install -f /kernel/drv -m 755 -u root -g sys i386/dp8390</code>
</li>
<li>
<code># /usr/sbin/install -f /kernel/drv -m 755 -u root -g sys i386/ni</code>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Wait a few seconds and the
<a href="http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/nwam/">Network Auto-Magic</a>
magically picks the driver up, plumbs the interface and starts DHCP for you.
</li>
</ul>
</p>https://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/october_s_czosug_meetingsOctober's CZOSUG Meetings -- #19 and #20lrhttps://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/october_s_czosug_meetings
Sat, 3 Nov 2007 11:09:13 +0000Solaris<p>
After a few months pause two
<a href="http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/czosug/">CZOSUG</a> meetings
were organized in October -- CZOSUG BootCamp (October 20th) and the first CZOSUG meeting in Brno
(October 23rd).
</p>
<p>
The all-day BootCamp focused on application tuning and debugging on OpenSolaris and
<a href="http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=159395&#159395">many
people</a> from Solaris RPE team presented there (big thanks to
<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/peteh/">Peter Harvey</a>, Milos Muzik,
<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/vita78">Vita Batrla</a>, Sasa Nedvedicky, Pavel Filipensky,
and <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/zk/">Zdenek Kotala</a>).
Thanks also to <a href="http://www.mff.cuni.cz/toISO-8859-2.en/">
Faculty of Mathematics and Physisc, Charles University</a> for hosting this event.
</p>
<p>
The CZOSUG #20 run at
<a href="http://www.muni.cz/fi/">Masaryk University, Faculty of Informatics<a>.
I had there a presentation about
<a href="http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/czosug/events_archive/czosug20.pdf">
"Introduction to OpenSolaris"</a> (slides are in Czech) followed by very nice
demo of DTrace, ZFS and BrandZ delivered by Milan Jurik. Thanks to
<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/roumen/">Roumen</a> for organizing this
<a href="http://java.cz/detail.do?articleId=7806">event</a>.
The CZOSUG meeting followed a CZJUG meeting, so we (the OpenSolaris community) were
able to leverage the contacts Rouman has from his for as NetBeans evangelist.
</p>
https://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/solaris_on_macbook_going_nativeSolaris on MacBook -- Going Nativelrhttps://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/solaris_on_macbook_going_native
Tue, 18 Sep 2007 03:04:25 +0000Solaris<p>
After I <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/lr/entry/solaris_macbook_and_parallels">installed
SXCE on MacBook Pro using Parallels</a> I ended up with resolution 1024 x 768 points.
This is nice but native resolution of the 15 inches
<a href="http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/">MacBook Pro</a> laptop is 1440 x 900 pixels,
so the next step was to make the SXCE use the native resolution for SXDE in full screen mode.
</p>
<p>
I found two useful links -- one at
<a href="http://forum.parallels.com/archive/index.php/t-249.html">Parallels Forum</a>
and another at
<a href="http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2006-06/msg00220.html">
DraginFly</a> site, which helped me to get the native resolution. Here are the steps
I followed:
<ul>
<li>
Log as super user and copy file <code>/etc/X11/.xorg.conf</code> to file
<code>/etc/X11/xorg.conf</code>
</li>
<li>
Edit the <code>/etc/X11/xorg.conf</code> as the following:
<ul>
<li>
In the section "Monitor" add rows:<br>
<code>
HorizSync 31.5 - 100.0<br>
VertRefresh 59.0 - 75.0<br>
Option "dpms"<br>
Modeline "1440x900" 108.84 1440 1472 1800 1912 900 918 927 946
</code>
</li>
<li>
In the section "Screen" add row: <code>DefaultDepth 24</code>
</li>
<li>
For each subsection "Display" you want to use in the section "Screen" add a new resolution
<code>"1440x900"</code> at the begin in the <code>Modes</code> line. For example:<br>
<code>Modes "1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"<code>
</li>
<li>
Reboot.
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</p>https://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/solaris_macbook_and_parallelsSolaris, MacBook and Parallelslrhttps://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/solaris_macbook_and_parallels
Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:43:27 +0000Solaris<p>
I recently switched from
<a href="http://global.acer.com/products/notebook/fr3400.htm">
Ferrari 3400</a> laptop to
<a href="http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/">
MacBook Pro</a>. After I got familiar with
<a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/">Mac OS X</a>
(one of the first tasks was to find Terminal ;-) )
I started to play with
<a href="http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/">
Parallels Desktop for Mac</a> in order to be able to install
<a href="http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/">Solaris</a>.
</p>
<p>
Parallels is easy to install but there is not actually too much
information at their web site how to set up the virtual machine
for Solaris installation. After a some searching I found very
useful blog entry
<a href="http://coalface.mcslp.com/?p=24">
Getting Solaris 10 working in Paralles</a>
by Martin MC Brown. I did not use Solaris 10 but
<a href="http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/">
Solaris Express Community Edition</a> (SXCE, Nevada, build 68).
The virtual machine has the following parameters:
</p>
<p>
<table border=1>
<tr>
<th>OS Type</th><td>Solaris</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>OS Version</th><td>Solaris 10</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Main memory</th><td>1024 MB</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Video memory</th><td>16 MB</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>1 x HDD, size</th><td>25600 MB</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>1 x CD/DVD ROM</th><td>Image file with SXCE image</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>2 x Serial port</th><td>Emulation / Use output file</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Network adapter</th><td>Bridged Ethernet / Default Adapter</td>
</tr>
</table>
</p>
<p>
Set Options/Booting/Boot Sequence to boot from CD-ROM at first and
the SXDE installation can start. I choose the "Solaris Express" option at the begin
because I wanted to use this machine to compile
<a href="http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/onnv/">ON/Nevada</a>
from
<a href="http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/current/">
the sources</a> later on (Solaris Express Developer Edition installs Sun
Studio 12 while Sun Studio 11 is recommended for building ON/Nevada).
</p>
<p>
The installation went on without any problems. The only thing to really decide
was the slice layout. I used a simple one -- slice 0 for <code>/</code>, slice 1 for <code>swap</code>,
slice 2 is the <code>overlay</code>, and slice 3 for <code>/data</code>).
</p>
<p>
When the Solaris Express booted first time I logged as a root using Failsafe Session
and created <code>/root</code> directory and set it as home directory for the
super user (edit the file <code>/etc/passwd</code>. This way all the Gnome stuff
generated for root goes to the <code>/root</code> directory and <code>/</code>does
not get polluted.
</p>
<p>
The next step was to install driver for the Realtek 8029(AS) network adapter provided
by the Parallels virtual machine. As
<a href="http://coalface.mcslp.com/?p=24">Martin MC Brown's blog</a>
says, the driver is located on vmtools.iso CD image located inside
<code>/Library/Parallels/Tools</code> directory. So, I shut down the Solaris Express,
stopped the virtual machine, set the vmtools.iso at the CD/DVD-ROM Options/Image File,
and booted the Solaris Express again.
</p>
<p>
The vmtools.iso gets automatically mounted and inside
<code>
/media/PRTOOLS/Drivers/Network/RTL8029/SOLARIS
</code> is located device driver for the Realtek network adapter.
I installed the driver using the <code>network.sh</code> script and choose
to get the IP address using DHCP. After another reboot I get assigned DHCP
address from my home DHCP server and another (virtual) machine appeared on
the network!
</p>
<p>
After getting the network up an running I set up
<a href="http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/">ZFS</a> pool.
I used slice 3 (<code>/dev/dsk/c0d0s3</code>), which was originally mounted as
UFS file system (under <code>/data</code> in my case). Here are the steps to
convert this slice to ZFS pool:
<ul>
<li>
<code>umount /data</code>
</li>
<li>
Edit <code>/etc/vfstab</code> and remove (mark as a comment) the line, specifying
how the <code>/dev/dsk/c0d0s3</code> should be mounted.
</li>
<li>
Create the ZFS pool: <code>
<a href="http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2240/6n4htdnou?a=view">zpool</a>
create -f mypool /dev/dsk/c0d0s3</code> (the
<code>-f</code> parameter forces to overwrite the existing UFS file system.
</li>
<li>
Check the ZFS pool: <code>zfs list</code>
</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>
Once the ZFS pool is set then actual file systems can be created inside it. One
of the obvious choices would file system for <code>/export/home</code>. This can
be achieved in two simple commands, for example:
<ul>
<li>
<code>
<a href="http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2240/6n4htdnop?a=view">zfs</a>
create mypool/home</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>zfs set mountpoint="/export/home" mypool/home</code>
</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>
And this is all folks :-) -- the Solaris Express, Comunity Edition is ready for the game!
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/lr/resource/solaris_pvm_large.png">
<img src="https://blogs.oracle.com/lr/resource/solaris_pvm_small.png" border="0" />
</a>
</p>
https://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/solaris_installation_add_more_softwareAdd More Software from Blastwavelrhttps://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/solaris_installation_add_more_software
Sun, 15 Jul 2007 08:07:49 +0000Solaris<a href="http://www.blastwave.org">Blastwave</a> provides very useful set of packages
for Solaris, so I quite often use this site. Setting up Blastwave is quite easy
and the <a href="http://www.blastwave.org/howto.html">HOWTO</a> section
at <a href="http://www.blastwave.org">Blastwave</a> is definitely the
best source for information. Here are the simplified steps:
<ul>
<li>
Go to <a href="http://www.blastwave.org/howto.html">Blastwave HOWTO</a>. Download
and install the <code>pkg-get</code> package.
</li>
<li>
Edit the <code>/opt/csw/etc/pkg-get.conf</code> file -- add there
the mirror closest to you and set <code>http_proxy</code>
or <code>ftp_proxy</code> if needed. Since I am based in Czech
Republic I typically use mirror at
<a href="http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/WEB/">Silicon Hill</a>
(<code>http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/blastwave/stable/</code>).
</li>
<li>
Install <code>wget</code> from Blastwave:
<code>pkg-get -i wget</code>
</li>
<li>
It is not a bad idea to use "more automation", so <code>pkgadd</code>
will not ask all the dependency questions, the trick is as the following:
<code>cp -p /var/pkg-get/admin-fullauto /var/pkg-get/admin</code>
</li>
<li>
And finally, I can install my favorite text editor :-) !
<code>pkg-get -i <a href="http://www.vim.org">gvim</a></code>
</li>
</ul>
</p>
https://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/solaris_installation_notes_distributionsSolaris Installation Notes -- Distributionslrhttps://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/solaris_installation_notes_distributions
Thu, 12 Apr 2007 05:12:01 +0000Solaris<p>
Thanks to <a href="http://www.opensolaris.org">OpenSolaris</a> there are now multiple
distributions to choose from:
<ul>
<li>
If you are OpenSolaris newbie it is not a bad idea to start with
<a href="http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/starterkit/">OpenSolaris Starter Kit</a>.
</li>
<li>
Choose <a href="http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp">Solaris 10</a> if you want
to use the most stable Solaris release.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/">Solaris Express, Community Edition</a>
is for people who want the latest <a href="http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/onnv/">Nevada</a>
builds.
</li>
<li>
There is a new program -- Solaris Express, Developer Edition, which focuses on developers. This
release installs also the developer tools -- <a href="http://www.netbeans.org>NetBeans</a> and
<a href="http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/index.jsp">Sun Studio</a>.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki">Nexenta</a> is a distribution for people who like
<a href="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</a> packaging tools, <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a>
look and feel and <a href="http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/">Solaris</a> cutting edge features
and stability.
</li>
<a href="http://wwww.belenix.org">BeleniX</a> is a great LiveCD distribution.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://schillix.berlios.de/">Schillix</a> was the first OpenSolaris distribution, which
came out just three days after official OpenSolaris launch.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.martux.org/">MarTux</a> is a distribution, which focuses on the Sparc platform.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.singanix.org/">Singanix</a> is a new distribution focusing on servers.
</li>
</ul>
</p>https://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/solaris_installation_notesSolaris Installation Notes -- Hardwarelrhttps://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/solaris_installation_notes
Sat, 31 Mar 2007 08:13:36 +0000Solaris<p>
Time to time people ask me what HW to choose for Solaris and about Solaris
installation in general. I am not an expert in this area but I played with
Solaris installation several times recently, so I got some experience and
I have some useful information to write about.
</p>
<p>
There are a lot of myths and prejudices concerning hardware supported by Solaris.
I hear quite often that Solaris does not run on such a such HW configurations.
This is typically not entirely true. Solaris runs on a lot of HW configurations
but it may happen that a specific device is not supported. So, for example, you
can end up without sound card support but Solaris will run on your machine. Here
is a list of useful links:
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/">Laptop OpenSolaris
community</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/">Hardware Compatibility List</a> is a good
source for checking what devices are supported and to get information about available
drivers.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/install_check.html">Solaris Operating
System for x86 Installation Check Tool</a> can tell you whether your x86 system
is likely to run <a href="http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/">Solaris 10 OS</a>.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/install_check_sx.html">Solaris Express
Installation Check Tool</a> can tell you whether your x86 system is likely to run
<a href="http://developers.sun.com/solaris/downloads/solexpdev/">Solaris Express,
Developer Edition OS</a>.
</li>
<li>
The other option is to try one of the LiveCD OpenSolaris distributions --
<a href="http://www.belenix.org">BeleniX</a>,
<a href="http://www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki">Nexenta</a>, or
<a href="http://schillix.berlios.de/">Schillix</a>
</li>
<li>
It is also possible to install Solaris on Intel Mac machines, see
<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/paulm/entry/dual_partitioning_a_macbook_pro">Paul Mitchell's
blog</a>.
</li>
<li>
If you do not have suitable HW or do not want to overwrite your current OS installation
you can also try virtual machines from <a href="http://www.parallels.com/">Parallels</a>
or <a href="http://www.vmware.com/">VMware</a>.
</li>
</p>
https://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/3_czosug_meetingsThree CZOSUG meetings ...lrhttps://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/3_czosug_meetings
Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:58:17 +0000Solaris<p>
... I missed and did not blog about -- time goes so fast these days.
<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/avalon">Darren Reed</a> talked about upcoming
changes in Solaris Networking at CZOSUG #14 and his presentation was
<a href="http://avc.sh.cvut.cz/download.php?mode=2&id=4247">recorded</a>.
</p>
<p>
CZOSUG #15 was a preparation for the first
<a href ="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/osdevcon2007/">OpenSolaris Developer Conference</a> in Berlin.
<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/zk">Zdenek Kotala</a> presented about PostgreSQL on Solaris and
<a href="http://www.martinman.net">Martin Man</a> presented about Nexenta.
</p>
<p>
And yes, I met <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/moinakg"/>Moinak Ghosh</a>, author of
<a href="http://www.belenix.org">BeleniX</a> while he was
in Prague and presented at CZOSUG #16. Note, that author
of the first OpenSolaris based distribution, <a href="http://schily.blogspot.com/">
Jörg Schilling</a> visited Prague a year ago and presented about
<a href="http://schillix.berlios.de/">SchilliX</a>.
</p>
<p>
An update for <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/josephgeorge/">Joe</a>: The presentations are linked
from the <a href="http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/czosug/">CZOSUG web page.</a>
</p>
https://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/setting_up_a_usb_printerSetting up a USB Printer for Solaris 10lrhttps://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/setting_up_a_usb_printer
Tue, 28 Nov 2006 01:47:46 +0000Solaris<p>
A few month ago I set up an HP usb printer on Solaris 10. It was not
a difficult task but finding out how to do it took some time. Here is
the approach, which worked very well for me:
<ol>
<li>
Connect the printer, check <code>/var/adm/messages</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>/dev/usb/printer0</code> device should get created automatically, supposing
this the first usb printer connected to your computer
</li>
<li>
Add the printer:
<ul>
<li>A generic command: <code>$ lpadmin -p your_printer_name -v /dev/usb/printer0 -o banner=never</code>
</li>
<li>Command specific for HP930C: <code>$ lpadmin -p your_printer_name> -o banner=never -v /dev/usb/printer0 -T PS -I postscript -m standard_foomatic -n /root/HP-DeskJet_930C-hpijs.ppd</code>
</li>
</ul>
The PPD files can be found at: <code>/usr/lib/lp/model/ppd/system/foomatic/HP</code>
</li>
<li>
Start LP service: <code>$ /usr/lib/lpsched</code>; but wait <a href="http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/smf/">SMF</a> is available, so use: <code>$ svcadm enable application/print/server</code>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2239/6n4hsf6jf?a=view">enable(1)</a> the printer: <code>$ /usr/bin/enable your_printer_name</code>
</li>
<li>
Let the printer <a href="http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/805-3173/6j31cplqb?a=view">accept(1M)</a> jobs: <code>$ /usr/sbin/accept your_printer_name</code>
</li>
<li>
To check what is going on use <a href="http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/802-1930-01/6i5u959l0?a=view">lpstat(1)</a>: <code>$ lpstat -a</code> or <code>$ lpstat -r</code>
</li>
<li>
Add filter for text file: <code>$ lpfilter -f a2ps -F /etc/lp/fd/a2ps.fd</code>
</li>
</ol>
Check the following links if you want to learn more:
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/basicprinting.html">SDN: Basic Principles of Printing in Solaris 2.6 and Above</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/duplex_printing.html">
BigAdmin: Duplex Printing on the Solaris 10 OS
</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://snap.nlc.dcccd.edu/reference/sysadmin/julian/ewtoc.html">
Solaris Advanced System Administrator's Guide, Second Edition</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/printing/">OpenSolaris Community: OpenSolaris Printing</a>
</li>
</ul>
</p>
https://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/solaris_and_opensolaris_learning_resourcesSolaris and OpenSolaris Learning Resourceslrhttps://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/solaris_and_opensolaris_learning_resources
Thu, 23 Nov 2006 08:41:59 +0000Solaris<p>
I had recently a presentation at University Day in Prague about OpenSolaris. During
preparation of this presentation I collected several useful links with various resources
for people interested in learning OpenSolaris (or lecturing about it). So, here you go:
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/edu/">Academic and Research community</a>
offers <a href="http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/edu/curriculum_development/">
OpenSolaris Curriculum "Plugins"</a> ready to use materials dealing with OpenSolaris
Overview, Processes and Threads, Memory Management, File Systems, Device Management.
</li>
<li>
Many of useful presentation can be found at
<a href="http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/os-presentations/">
OpenSolaris talks and presentations</a>.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/reference_resources.jsp">
Solaris Reference Materials</a> provides Learning centers (focusing on
Virtualization, Zones, ZFS), How-to guides (Installation, Security, DTrace, SMF,
ZFS, PostgreSQL, ...) and many whitepapers.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/programs/sai/">Sun Academic Initiative</a>
program offers free training courses not only about Solaris but also about Java. Members
of this program can get certifications for special prices. It is also worth to check the
<a href="http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/index.html">Global Education & Research</a>
web page.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/home/">BigAdmin</a> is the place to search
for any system adiministration related questions.
</li>
<li>
And last but not least developers have <a href="http://developers.sun.com">
Sun Developer Network (SDN)</a>. The SDN has also its own blog --
<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/SDNChannel/">SDN Channel</a>.
</li>
</ul>
</p>
https://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/sun_tech_days_2006_inSun Tech Days 2006 in Praguelrhttps://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/sun_tech_days_2006_in
Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:22:46 +0000Solaris<p>
Sun Tech Days in Prague were held from November 14 to November 16, 2006. They
included also OpenSolaris Day on November 14 and University Day on
November 16. All these events represented great opportunity to meet with many of
our colleagues from Sun as well as with many people outside Sun.
</p>
<p>
Engineers from the New Solaris group (and especially from the
<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/openrpe">Solaris RPE</a> organization) prepared
four booths with demos concerning
<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/vlad/resource/Simple_Solaris_Installation.pdf">
OpenSolaris Installation</a>,
<a href="http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/dtrace/">DTrace</a>,
<a href="http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/scla.jsp">BrandZ</a> and
<a href="http://www.sun.com/software/index.jsp?cat=Desktop&tab=3&subcat=Sun%20Ray%20Clients">SunRay</a>:
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/lr/resource/std_brandz_dtrace_large.jpg">
<img src="https://blogs.oracle.com/lr/resource/std_brandz_dtrace_small.jpg" border="0"></a>
<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/lr/resource/std_sunray_large.jpg">
<img src="https://blogs.oracle.com/lr/resource/std_sunray_small.jpg" border="0"></a>
<br>
<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/lr/resource/std_install_large.jpg">
<img src="https://blogs.oracle.com/lr/resource/std_install_small.jpg" border="0"></a>
</p>
<p>
Besides this several people from our team also participated at the HR booth:
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/lr/resource/std_hr_booth_1_large.jpg">
<img src="https://blogs.oracle.com/lr/resource/std_hr_booth_1_small.jpg" border="0"></a>
<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/lr/resource/std_hr_booth_2_large.jpg">
<img src="https://blogs.oracle.com/lr/resource/std_hr_booth_2_small.jpg" border="0"></a>
</p>
<p>
The 12th <a href="http://www.opensolaris.cz">CZOSUG</a> meeting was held at the end
of the OpenSolaris Day and Martin Cerveny presented about status of the project.
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/lr/resource/std_czosug_12_large.jpg">
<img src="https://blogs.oracle.com/lr/resource/std_czosug_12_small.jpg" border="0"></a>
</p>
<p>
We managed also to get created USB memory sticks with <a href="http://www.opensolaris.org">
OpenSolaris</a> logo and LiveUSB <a href="http://www.belenix.org">BeleniX</a> on it. Having
a live OpenSolaris distribution on such a small device is really cool!
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/lr/resource/usb_1_large.jpg">
<img src="https://blogs.oracle.com/lr/resource/usb_1_small.jpg" border="0"></a>
<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/lr/resource/usb_2_large.jpg">
<img src="https://blogs.oracle.com/lr/resource/usb_2_small.jpg" border="0"></a>
<br>
<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/lr/resource/usb_3_large.jpg">
<img src="https://blogs.oracle.com/lr/resource/usb_3_small.jpg" border="0"></a>
</p>
<p>
And yes, Jim Mauro signed my copy of the
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Solaris-TM-Internals-OpenSolaris-Architecture/dp/0131482092/sr=8-1/qid=1164229912/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-2909508-0079301?ie=UTF8&s=books">
Solaris Internals</a> book :-) !
</p>
https://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/xen_bootcamp_aka_czosug_11Xen BootCamp aka CZOSUG #11lrhttps://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/xen_bootcamp_aka_czosug_11
Thu, 26 Oct 2006 07:57:57 +0000Solaris<p>
The second <a href="http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/czosug/">CZOSUG</a> all day event is over and we are already looking for the next meeting, which be very likely held at
<a href="http://cz.sun.com/techdays/prague/">Sun Tech Days in Prague</a>.
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/lr/resource/czosug11_large.jpg">
<img src="https://blogs.oracle.com/lr/resource/czosug11_small.jpg" border="0"></a>
<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/lr/resource/czosug11_1_large.jpg">
<img src="https://blogs.oracle.com/lr/resource/czosug11_1_small.jpg" border="0"></a>
<br>
<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/lr/resource/czosug11_2_large.jpg">
<img src="https://blogs.oracle.com/lr/resource/czosug11_2_small.jpg" border="0"></a>
<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/lr/resource/czosug11_3_large.jpg">
<img src="https://blogs.oracle.com/lr/resource/czosug11_3_small.jpg" border="0"></a>
<br>
</p>
<p>
The Xen BootCamp hosted eight interesting talks dealing with both theoretical and practical aspects of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen"> Xen</a> on <a href="http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2006-10/sunflash.20061017.1.xml">Solaris</a> and Linux. As a bonus, Johannes Schindelin from <a href="http://www.qemu.org/">QEMU project</a> had a very good presentation about this about this Xen alternative.
</p>
<p>
Four engineers from <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/openrpe">Solaris RPE</a> organizations in Czech and UK had the following presentations and demos:
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/ambiguous/">Frank Hofmann</a> /
<a href="http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/czosug/czosug11_xen_intro.pdf">
"Solaris Virtualization and the Xen Hypervisor"</a>
</li>
<li>
Jiri Cervenka / <a href="http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/czosug/czosug11_xenaware_oses.pdf">Xen-aware OSes - brief status overview</a>
</li>
<li>
Milan Jurik / Life with dom0/domU
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/taz">Lubos Kosco</a>, Milan Jurik / <a href="http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/czosug/czosug11_xen_hibernation.pdf">Xen Hibernate Migration</a>
</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>
Michal Svamberk had an excellent presentation (including demos) about usage of Xen at
the University of West Bohemia. Marek Pasovsky talked about Xen in web hosting
environment. Milan Vaclavik had an ad-hoc talk about usage of Xen in students
laboratories at Czech Technical University.
</p>
<p>
AVC Sillicon Hill recoreded all talks and they will be available at
<a href="http://avc.sh.cvut.cz">AVC home page</a> -- thanks!
</p>
<p>
Thanks to all who organized, presented and attended the BootCamp and also special thanks to <a href "http://www.martinman.net">Martin Man</a> who moderated this event.
</p>https://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/missed_blogsWhat I Missed to Blog About...lrhttps://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/missed_blogs
Tue, 27 Jun 2006 12:59:22 +0000Solaris<p>
This time I can say only -- yes, I missed to blog about quite a few cool events. So, here is the list in brief:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://www.opensolaris.cz">OpenSolaris.cz</a> now belongs to CZOSUG community!
</li>
<li>
CZOSUG #7 on April 11 -- Lubos Kosco and Martin Man presented about Sun Grid Engine; Frank Hofmann presented about "How to write filesystem driver for Solaris"
</li>
<li>
CZOSUG #8 on May 3 -- Tomas Heran presented about SMF; Vladimir Kotal and Milan Jurik presented about binary packages for OpenSolaris
<br><br>
<a href="/roller/resources/lr/CZOSUG8_1_large.jpg"><img src="/roller/resources/lr/CZOSUG8_1_small.jpg" border="0"></a>
<a href="/roller/resources/lr/CZOSUG8_2_large.jpg"><img src="/roller/resources/lr/CZOSUG8_2_small.jpg" border="0"></a>
<br>
</li>
<li>
I handed over the role of CZOSUG coordinator from Sun in Czech to Milan Jurik and Martin Man -- thanks guys for taking over!
</li>
<li>
CZOSUG #9 on June 13 -- completely devoted to localization -- three presentations about localization of OpenSolaris, Ubuntu, and Gnome
</li>
<li>
OpenSolaris celebrated the first anniversary on June 14 -- congratulations!
<br>
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<div class="l1top" style="padding-top:8px">
<div class="l1lft" style="margin-left:240px">
<a href="http://www.opensolaris.org" class="title">Fast, Safe, Open, Free!</a>
<div class="copy">Open for business. Open for me! <a href="http://www.opensolaris.org" class="morelink">&raquo; Learn More</a></div>
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</li>
<li>
Everyone is welcome to join the informal anniversary meeting at <a href="http://katalog.seznam.cz/detail/564148-dobra-trefa-praha-zizkov.html">Dobra trefa</a> on June 28.)
</li>
</ul>
</p>https://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/czosug_6_bootcampCZOSUG #6: BootCamplrhttps://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/czosug_6_bootcamp
Sun, 26 Mar 2006 01:03:57 +0000Solaris<p>
On March 11 (yes on Saturday) we had an all day event -- <a href="http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/czosug/">CZOSUG BootCamp</a>. The BootCamp had two main themes -- OpenSolaris / Solaris installation and administration and Device Drivers development. The event was held at premises of <a href="http://www.mff.cuni.cz/toISO-8859-2.en/">Faculty of Mathematics and Physisc, Charles University in Prague</a> at <a href="http://www.mff.cuni.cz/toISO-8859-2.en/fakulta/budovy/s.htm">Mala Strana</a>. I would like to thank to management of the faculty for cooperation and providing the space as well as to <a href="http://www.decky.cz/">Martin Decky</a> (Second Vicepresident of <a href="http://www.mff.cuni.cz/toISO-8859-2.en/fakulta/struktura/as.htm">Academic Senate</a>) for help with organization.
</p>
<p>
The main speaker was Martin Cerveny (coordinator of CZOSUG) -- he covered both the initial Solaris installation and administration topic as well as the device drivers development. <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/vita78">Vita Batrla</a> presented about driver for CDMA modem developed using ugen driver and Milan Jurik presented a few slides about USB in general.
</p>
<p>
In parallel with the presentation track people from OPG (Operating Platforms Group) in Prague prepared and run OpenSolaris Install-fest. The lecture room at Charles University had its own network, so we could "steel" it and put there Solaris install server. At the end seven people tried to install Solaris and five succeeded. Vlada Kotal run the very practical presentation about the installation and post-installation steps while other people from OPG helped the attendees with the actual installation.
</p>
<p>
Petr Sumbera took pictures from this event -- see his <a href"http://blogs.sun.com/psum">blog</a> or pictures at <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/czosug/">flicker</a>.
</p>https://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/czosug_5_opensolaris_project_overviewCZOSUG #5: OpenSolaris Project Overviewlrhttps://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/czosug_5_opensolaris_project_overview
Wed, 1 Mar 2006 12:33:26 +0000Solaris<p>
It is more than one week ageo we had <a href="http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/czosug/">CZOSUG</a> meeting #5.
</p>
<p>
I did not have time to post this message earlier because our team moved to a new office and I was rather busy with packing and worrying if everything goes well (and I am very happy now beacuse the move was very smooth and all our servers survived :-) !), check also <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/prague">Pavel Suk's blog about Prague</a>.
</p>
<p>
So, now back to the 'open business' -- the meeting was held the last Tuesday (February 21). Martin Cerveny had very interesting presentation about current status of the OpenSolaris project and we also discussed the plans for CZOSUG #6 -- "CZOSUG BootCamp - OS Installation and Device Drivers Development".
</p>
<p>
Here are a few pictures, the last one (unfortunately quite bad one :-( ) shows Quake running on Solaris ;-) on Martin's laptop:
</p>
<p>
<a href="/roller/resources/lr/CZOSUG5_02_large.jpg"><img src="/roller/resources/lr/CZOSUG5_02_small.jpg" border="0"></a>
<a href="/roller/resources/lr/CZOSUG5_03_large.jpg"><img src="/roller/resources/lr/CZOSUG5_03_small.jpg" border="0"></a>
<br>
<a href="/roller/resources/lr/CZOSUG5_04_large.jpg"><img src="/roller/resources/lr/CZOSUG5_04_small.jpg" border="0"></a>
<a href="/roller/resources/lr/CZOSUG5_06_large.jpg"><img src="/roller/resources/lr/CZOSUG5_06_small.jpg" border="0"></a>
</p>
https://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/what_is_coolZFS: 3rd CZOSUG Meetinglrhttps://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/what_is_cool
Fri, 9 Dec 2005 06:09:10 +0000Solaris<p>
Third <a href="http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/czosug/">CZOSUG</a> meeting was held this Wednesday, December 7, 2005. The topic of the meeting was <a href="http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/">ZFS</a>, presented by Don Traub, Evan Layton and Mark Sweeny. Thanks to all who came, to all who helped to organize this event and of course, to all three speakers.
</p>
<p>
Pictures are this time on <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/vita78">Vita's</a> and <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/psum/">Petr's</a> blogs.
</p>https://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/czosug_meeting_planCZOSUG Meeting Planlrhttps://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/czosug_meeting_plan
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=3135&tstart=0Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:06:27 +0000Solaris<p>
We plan to have a <a href="http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/czosug/">CZOSUG</a> meeting, which will take place on November 10, 2005 at 7pm in Sun's office in Prague (Evropska 33e, Praha 6).
</p>
<p>
The main topic of the meeting will be presentation about "<a href="http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/dtrace/">DTrace</a> backend implementation on Solaris/x86-x64" by Frank Hofmann. Frank works as Solaris Sustaining Engineer and he is recognized expert in the area of x86/x64 Solaris as well as in x86 Crash Dump Analysis.
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/psum">Petr Sumbera</a> will also have a presentation about current OpenSolaris distributions.
</p>https://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/belenix_at_openweekendBelenix at OpenWeekendlrhttps://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/belenix_at_openweekend
Wed, 19 Oct 2005 04:47:17 +0000Solaris<p>
One more thing to add -- <a href="http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site/belenix_home.html">Belenix</a> was used at <a href="http://www.openweekend.cz/?node=5b&lang=1#workshopy">OpenSolaris workshop</a> at the <a href="http://www.openweekend.cz">OpenWeekend</a> and it worked very well.
</p>https://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/openweekend_in_pragueOpenWeekend in Praguelrhttps://blogs.oracle.com/lr/entry/openweekend_in_prague
http://www.openweekend.czMon, 17 Oct 2005 04:25:59 +0000Solaris<p>
An <a href="http://www.openweekend.cz">OpenWeekend</a> conference was held in Prague in the weekend of October 15 and 16, 2005. This conference is organized by students from <a href="http://www.cvut.cz/en/">Czech Technical University Prague</a>, <a href="http://cs.felk.cvut.cz/webis/en">Department of Computer Science</a>. The main focus of this annual event is on Open Source products and development. This year was quite interesting from Solaris' point of view because Saturday afternoon was devoted to <a href="http://www.opensolaris.org">OpenSolaris</a> and also to the first meeting of <a href="http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/czosug/">Czech OpenSolaris Users Group (CZOSUG)</a>.
</p>
<p>
Chris Armes (Director, EMEA Revenue Product Engineering) gave Sun's sponsorship presentation during which we started to give away OpenSolaris T-shirts. After Chris' presentation Solaris engineers from <a href="http://www.sun.cz">Sun engineering center in Czech Republic</a> started a panel discussion session about <a href="http://www.opensolaris.org">OpenSolaris</a> (and more T-shirts were given away ;-) ). You can <a href="/roller/resources/lr/OW-Sun-OpenWeekend05-Panel.pdf">take a look at slides for the panels</a>. A demo we prepared for the panel discussion had the following setup (which brought quite a lot of attention):
<ul>
<li>My <a href="http://global.acer.com/products/notebook/fr3400.htm">Ferrari laptop</a> with <a href="http://www.sun.com/software/sunray/">SunRay Server</a> installed on it</li>
<li>Three <a href="http://www.sun.com/sunray/sunray1/">SunRays</a> configured for triple-head session (xinerama)</li>
<li>Internet connection provided via <a href="http://www.eurotel.cz/jnp/cz/services/service/cz-services-otherPages-VyberteSiDalsiMoznostiPripoj-EurotelDataExpres-modem.html">CDMA USB modem (quite popular in Czech)</a> using a Solaris CDMA driver developed by <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/vita78/">Vita Batrla</a> and <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/psum/">Petr Sumbera</a> from the OP/N1 Revenue Product Engineering team in Czech</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>
Preparations for the OpenWeekend required quite a lot of effort and many people were involved -- it was true team effort for us. Big thanks to all who helped with organizing the event, helped to prepare the presentation, demo, and took part in the panel discussion and in the CZOSUG meeting.
</p>
<p>
Here are some pictures:
<br>
<a href="/roller/resources/lr/ow11.jpg"><img src="/roller/resources/lr/ow11.jpg" border="0"></a>
<a href="/roller/resources/lr/ow01.jpg"><img src="/roller/resources/lr/ow01.jpg" border="0"></a>
<a href="/roller/resources/lr/ow02.jpg"><img src="/roller/resources/lr/ow02.jpg" border="0"></a>
<br>
The first visit of lecture hall K1 at Czech Technical University Prague to decide where and how to hold the panel discussion.
<br>
<br>
<a href="/roller/resources/lr/ow03.jpg"><img src="/roller/resources/lr/ow03.jpg" border="0"></a>
<a href="/roller/resources/lr/ow04.jpg"><img src="/roller/resources/lr/ow04.jpg" border="0"></a>
<br>
Setting up the SunRay server the CDMA modem.
<br>
<br>
<a href="/roller/resources/lr/ow07.jpg"><img src="/roller/resources/lr/ow07.jpg" border="0"></a>
<a href="/roller/resources/lr/ow08.jpg"><img src="/roller/resources/lr/ow08.jpg" border="0"></a>
<a href="/roller/resources/lr/ow08.jpg"><img src="/roller/resources/lr/ow09.jpg" border="0"></a>
<br>
The demo is running in our office and then disassembled and ready for transport.
<br>
<br>
<a href="/roller/resources/lr/ow05.jpg"><img src="/roller/resources/lr/ow05.jpg" border="0"></a>
<a href="/roller/resources/lr/ow06.jpg"><img src="/roller/resources/lr/ow06.jpg" border="0"></a>
<br>
Preparation for the panel discussion.
</p>
<p>
And here are some picture from the actual event:
<br>
<a href="/roller/resources/lr/ow08.jpg"><img src="/roller/resources/lr/ow10.jpg" border="0"></a>
<a href="/roller/resources/lr/ow08.jpg"><img src="/roller/resources/lr/ow12.jpg" border="0"></a>
<br>
More pictures can be found at <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/psum/">Petr's weblog</a>.
</p>